Salient

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salient \Sa"li*ent\, a. [L. saliens, -entis, p. pr. of salire to
     leap; cf. F. saillant. See {Sally}, n. & v. i..]
     1. Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping.
        "Frogs and salient animals." --Sir T. Browne.
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     2. Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
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              He had in himself a salient, living spring of
              generous and manly action.            --Burke.
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     3. Hence, figuratively, forcing itself on the attention;
        prominent; conspicuous; noticeable.
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              He [Grenville] had neither salient traits, nor
              general comprehensiveness of mind.    --Bancroft.
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     4. (Math. & Fort.) Projecting outwardly; as, a salient angle;
        -- opposed to {reentering}. See Illust. of {Bastion}.
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     5. (Her.) Represented in a leaping position; as, a lion
        salient.
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     {Salient angle}. See {Salient}, a., 4.
  
     {Salient polygon} (Geom.), a polygon all of whose angles are
        salient.
  
     {Salient polyhedron} (Geom.), a polyhedron all of whose solid
        angles are salient.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Salient \Sa"li*ent\, a. (Fort.)
     A salient angle or part; a projection.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  salient
       adj 1: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an
              outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned
              by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to
              their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most
              prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a
              spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about
              Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center";
              "a striking resemblance between parent and child"
              [syn: {outstanding}, {prominent}, {spectacular}, {striking}]
       2: (of angles) pointing outward at an angle of less than 180
          degrees [ant: {re-entrant}]
       3: represented as leaping (rampant but leaning forward) [syn: {salient(ip)}]
       n : (military) the part of the line of battle that projects
           closest to the enemy

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  128 Moby Thesaurus words for "salient":
     airspace, area, arrant, arresting, bas-relief, bellying, belt,
     blatant, bold, boldness, bulging, celebrated, chief, confines,
     conspicuous, continental shelf, corridor, country, department,
     distinctive, distinguished, distinguishing, district, division,
     embossment, eminence, eminent, emissile, environs, esteemed,
     estimable, exceptional, excrescence, excrescency, excrescent,
     excrescential, extraordinary, extruding, extrusion, flagrant,
     gibbosity, gibbousness, glaring, ground, hanging out, heartland,
     high relief, hinterland, important, impressive, in relief,
     in the foreground, intrusive, jutting, land, low relief, marked,
     memorable, milieu, moving, neighborhood, noble, notable,
     noteworthy, noticeable, notorious, obtrusive, obvious, of mark,
     offshore rights, ostensible, outstanding, part, parts, pertinent,
     place, precincts, premises, prestigious, primary, principal,
     prognathous, projecting, projection, prominence, prominent,
     pronounced, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusion,
     protrusive, protuberance, protuberancy, protuberant, protuberating,
     purlieus, quarter, rare, region, relief, remarkable, rememberable,
     reputable, salience, section, signal, significant, soil, space,
     special, staring, stark-staring, sticking out, striking, telling,
     terrain, territory, three-mile limit, tuberosity, tuberousness,
     twelve-mile limit, unforgettable, unique, vicinage, vicinity,
     weighty, zone